Homestudy courses from the Iowa Association of REALTORS® offer you the convenience of completing your education requirements at your own pace, at your home or office.

No classroom time required!

1. Effective September 2, 2009, a maximum of 24 hours may be taken by home study/online courses.
2. You must complete each homestudy course, including any retakes of the final exam, within 6 months of purchasing the course.
3. You must score 90% or better on the final exam.
4. You must submit a Student Affidavit for each homestudy course you complete. We cannot issue a certificate until the Student Affidavit has been submitted to us.
5. We are automatically notified when you complete a homestudy course, and will issue a certificate via email within 6 business days of course completion.
6. All homestudy sales are final; no refunds or exchanges are available.

Ethics - Acting with Integrity (Online) – Cost: $40.00
4 hours Real Estate Mandatory and/or Elective CE

This course introduces the latest research in business ethics and includes images, charts, and graphs to help you master the concepts, plus video role-plays and chapter-summaries to keep you engaged. Additionally, this class satisfies the NAR quadrennial ethics requirement.
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Law Update (Online) – Cost: $50.00
8 hours Real Estate Mandatory and/or Elective CE

This 8-hour online course covers key Iowa laws relevant to the practice of real estate:  license, fraud, and misrepresentation, agency, licensee responsibilities, disclosures, fair housing laws, and more.
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Septic Systems and Time of Transfer Inspections (Online) - Cost: $20.00
2 hours Real Estate Elective CE

Beginning in 2009, Iowa law required that every building served by a septic system have that septic system inspected prior to a deed transfer. This course will explain the inspection requirements and procedures and outline some of the issues you may have to deal with during the inspection process. The course begins by describing the types of legal septic systems and how they operate and are maintained. The objective of the inspection program is to ensure that every home has adequate wastewater treatment.
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Foreclosure in Iowa:  How to Help Owners and Buyers While Building Your Business (Online) - Cost: $20.00
2 hours Real Estate Elective CE

Unfortunately, today, foreclosure has become a reality for all too many American homeowners.  For REALTORS®, this reality translates into a new way of doing business. This course is designed to help you, the REALTOR®, understand the foreclosure process while building strong partnerships with homeowners either buying or selling a home.  In addition to providing definitions, timelines, solutions, and listing opportunities, this course also includes additional resources to expand your current knowledge of foreclosure.
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Do the Math: Trust Accounting (Online) - Cost: $30.00
3 hours Real Estate Elective CE

In this course you will learn the basic rules regarding a trust account. You will review the rules for establishing and maintaining the account as well as when and how deposits and payments are to be made. Included in the course are a few typical trust account transactions which you will be required to post to the general ledger and the appropriate sub-ledgers. To complete the course you will be required to successfully balance the sub-ledgers to the general ledger.
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Section 1031 Exchanges (Online) - Cost: $30.00
3 hours Real Estate Elective CE

This course will cover basic and intermediate exchange principles including how to determine if an exchange is appropriate, what properties qualify for exchange treatment, how and when to use a qualified intermediary company to structure the transaction, documentation requirements, important rules and restrictions, reverse exchanges and complex exchange issues.
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Delivering Incredible Customer Service (Online) - Cost: $30.00
3 hours Real Estate Elective CE

This course is designed to help participants develop an understanding of customer service as a strategic business advantage.
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Fair Housing (Online) - Cost:  $40.00
6 hours Real Estate Elective CE

Recent fair housing legislation has been aimed at dramatically strengthening the enforcement mechanisms and remedies enacted in 1968. Agents today must be careful to deliver "equal professional service" to avoid legal trouble. This course helps students provide the consistency, objectivity, and documentation of service that the law requires.
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Foreclosures, Short Sales, REOs and Auctions (Online) –
Cost: $40.00
6 hours Real Estate Elective CE

With the number of homes going into foreclosure and short sales today reaching unprecedented highs, it is increasingly important for licensees to stay current on these topics so as to remain competitive and successful in the market. This continuing education title discusses four hot topics in today’s market: Foreclosures, Short Sales, REOs, and Auctions.
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Introduction to Commercial Real Estate Sales (Online) – Cost: $40
6 hours Real Estate Elective CE

This elective provides a comprehensive introduction to the potentially lucrative field of commercial real estate. Discussion includes the categories of commercial property, financial elements involved in real estate investments, and developing a marketing plan.
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Sustainable Housing and Building Green: What Agents Should Know (Online) – Cost: $40
4 hours Real Estate Elective CE

This course presents the fundamental basics of sustainable housing, or building “green,” as it relates to real estate professionals and their clients.
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The Truth About Mold (Online) - Cost: $40
6 hours Real Estate Elective CE

Mold is a controversial topic that is quickly becoming a serious liability risk for real estate agents and a threat to all in involved in real estate transactions---from home inspectors and the home insurance industry to buyers and sellers facing potential health risks and the inability to secure insurance. The Truth About Mold provides the answers students need to protect their physical and fiscal well-being and to separate myth from truth.
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Mortgage Fraud & Predatory Lenging (Online) – Cost: $40
6 hours Real Estate Elective CE

This course addresses the hand-in-hand issues of predatory lending and mortgage fraud, and how they affect foreclosed and repossessed properties. Each chapter is devoted to a specific topic and includes a definition and discussion of the issue, relevant information, and the impact of the topic on real estate agents. Learning features such as case studies, key terms, and end-of-chapter multiple-choice questions with answer rationales help emphasize important concepts.
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